Re: TAP tests take a long time

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: TAP tests take a long time
Date: 2017-04-12 02:50:41
Message-ID: 20170412025041.ndlme6fxh64oef6z@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2017-04-12 10:39:22 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 12 April 2017 at 08:22, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Craig Ringer
> > <craig(dot)ringer(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> >>
> >> We should also have a debug --no-fsync option for initdb, or maybe allow it
> >> to take -o options to pass to child postgres so we can pass fsync=off .
> >
> > That's an idea as well...
>
> OK, looking at this, initdb already runs postgres -F then does its own
> fsync()s at the end.
>
> It already has a -N / --no-sync option too. Which is already used by
> PostgresNode.pm . So as much as can be done has already been done
> here.

The time in initdb is largely spent in regprocin and server start/stop,
so that doesn't surprise me.

- Andres

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